As Americans grapple with gropings, TSA heads say they are listening to travelers' concerns over new security measures. Getty

November 23, 2010

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano seemed to signal on Monday that the TSA's controversial airport screening procedures, including pat-downs, will be altered. The TSA will "make adjustments or changes when called upon," Napolitano told reporters. John Pistole, the TSA's administrator, also described the new security methods as an "evolving program that will be adapted as conditions warrant" — but later insisted the policy would not be changed. Could the furor over pat-downs prompt the TSA to scrap them? (Watch John Pistole defend pat-downs)

America needs to get over 'terrorism hysteria': What we need to scrap, says Ken Adelman at The Washington Post, is the national panic over terrorism. We're already as protected as we can be against Al Qaeda. These new measures are simply "performance art" intended to "reassure passengers they're safe." We should learn how to live with the terror threat. "Some terrorist attack will come. Some people will be killed. But we'll survive.""Let's end terrorism hysteria"